Philosophy of Mind

David Chalmers is Professor of Philosophy and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at NYU. He is Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University and co-director of the PhilPapers Foundation. He is the author of The Conscious Mind (OUP 1997), Metametaphysics (OUP 2009), The Character of Consciousness (OUP 2010), and Constructing the World (OUP 2012).

The volume is comprehensive and the selection of classic pieces - including contemporary, 20th century classics - is terrific. I am able to teach material in the order I prefer and I can be sure to find the appropriate reading in this anthology. The Chalmers volume lends itself to tailoring the course syllabus to the needs of the instructor. Moreover, it is the only anthology that I don't have to supplement with handouts or a reading packet, and that is veryattractive." Joe Cruz, Williams College

• Part I: FOUNDATIONS A. Dualism. 1. Meditations on First Philosophy (II and VI).René Descartes 2. Passions of the Soul (Excerpt).René Descartes 3. Correspondence Princess Elisabeth & René Descartes 4. The Akan Concept of a Person Kwame Gyekye 5. On the Soul: The Floating Man (Excerpt)Avicenna 6. On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata, and Its History (Excerpt) Thomas Huxley 7. An Unfortunate Dualist.Raymond M. Smullyan B. Behaviorism 8. Descartes' Myth.Gilbert Ryle. 9. The Logical Analysis of Psychology Carl G. Hempel 10. Brains and Behavior.Hilary Putnam C. The identity theory and functionalism 11. Sensations And Brain Processes.J.J.C. Smart. 12. The Nature of Mental States.Hilary Putnam. 13. The Causal Theory of the MindDavid M. Armstrong 14. Mad Pain and Martian PainDavid Lewis 15. Troubles with Functionalism (Excerpt)Ned Block 16. Pseudonormal Vision: An Actual Case of Qualia Inversion'Martine Nida-Rümelin D. Other Psychophysical Relations 17. Mental EventsDonald Davidson 18. Special Sciences.Jerry A. Fodor 19. Finding the Mind in the Natural WorldFrank Jackson 20. The Many Problems of Mental Causation (Excerpt)Jaegwon Kim 21. Emergentisms, Ancient and Modern (Excerpt)Jonardon Ganeri 22. Post-Physicalism Barbara Montero II. CONSCIOUSNESS A. General 23. Concepts of consciousnessNed Block 24. What Is It Like To Be A Bat?Thomas Nagel 25. Quining QualiaDaniel C Dennett 26. Explaining ConsciousnessDavid Rosenthal 27. Visual Qualia and Visual Content RevisitedMichael Tye 28. Illusionism as a Theory of ConsciousnessKeith Frankish B. Consciousness and materialism 29. Consciousness and its Place in NatureDavid J. Chalmers 30. Epiphenomenal QualiaFrank Jackson 31. What Experience TeachesDavid Lewis 32. Naming and necessity (Excerpt)Saul A. Kripke 33. Acquaintance and the Mind-Body problem. Katalin Balog 34. Is Matter Conscious?Hedda Hassel Mørch III. CONTENT A. The Nature of Intentionality 35. Mental and Physical Phenomena (Excerpt)Franz Brentano 36. <"Intentional Inexistence> "Roderick M. Chisholm 37. A Recipe for ThoughtFred Dretske 38. Of Sensory Systems and the "Aboutness" of Mental States.Kathleen Akins 39. BiosemanticsRuth Millikan 40. Inferentialism and Some of its ChallengesRobert M. Brandom 41. The Intentionality of Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of Intentionality Terence Horgan & John M. Tienson B. Propositional Attitudes 42. Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (Excerpt)Wilfrid Sellars 43. Propositional AttitudesJerry A. Fodor 44. True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why It WorksDaniel C. Dennett 45. Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes.Paul M. Churchland 46. Alief and BeliefTamar Gendler C. Internalism, externalism, and embodiment 47. The Meaning Of "Meaning" (Excerpt)Hilary Putnam 48. Individualism And The Mental (Excerpt)Tyler Burge 49. The Extended MindAndy Clark and David J. Chalmers 50. Overextending the Mind?Brie Gertler 51. The Embodied MindShaun Gallagher and Dan Zahavi PART IV. PERCEPTION 52. The Argument From Illusion (Excerpt)A.J. Ayer 53. Sense and Sensibilia (Excerpt)J.L. Austin 54. The <"Sensation> " as a Unit of ExperienceMaurice Merleau-Ponty 55. The Intentionality of Sensation: A Grammatical Feature.G. E. M. Anscombe 56. The Limits of Self-Awareness (Excerpt)M.G.F. Martin 57. Is The Visual World A Grand Illusion?Alva Noë 58. Which Properties Are Represented In Perception?Susanna Siegel PART V. SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND OTHER MINDS 59. How Do You Know You're Not a Zombie?Fred Dretske 60. Introspection (excerpts)Alex Byrne 61. The Unreliability of Naive IntrospectionEric Schwitzgebel 62. What You Can't Expect When You're Expecting.L.A. Paul 63. AnalogyBertrand Russell 64. Intuitions About Consciousness: Experimental StudiesJoshua Knobe and Jesse Prinz 65. On Being an OctopusPeter Godfrey-Smith PART VI: THE SELF 66. The Sense of the Self Galen Strawson 67. Non-Self: Empty Persons (Excerpt)Mark Siderits 68. I am John's BrainAndy Clark 69. The Brain and Its SelfPatricia S. Churchland 70. Reductionism and Personal IdentityDerek Parfit 71. Learning to Be MeGreg Egan 72. Feminism in Philosophy of Mind: The Question of Personal IdentitySusan James 73. Talking Identity Kwame Anthony Appiah PART VII. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 74. They're Made of MeatTerry Bisson 75. Computing Machinery And Intelligence (Excerpt)Alan Turing. 76. Minds, Brains, and Programs.John R. Searle 77. The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis (Excerpt)David J. Chalmers 78. The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Nick Bostrom and Eliezer Yudkowsky 79. How Philosophy of Mind Can Shape the Future.Susan Schneider and Pete Mandik